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De Gruyter Covert Modality in Non-finite Contexts
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality. Covert Modality is modality which we interpret but which is not associated with any lexical item in the structure that we are interpreting. This dissertation investigates a class of environments that involves covert modality. Examples of covert modality include wh-infinitival complements, infinitival relative clauses, purpose clauses, the 'have to' construction, and the 'is to' construction (cf. 1): 1a. Tim knows [how to solve the problem]. ("Tim knows how one/he could/should solve the problem.")1b. Jane found [a book to draw cartoons in] for Sara. ("Jane found a book for Sara one could/shoulddraw cartoons in.")1c. [The man to fix the sink] is here. ("The man whose purpose is to fix the sink is here.")1d. Sue went to Torino [to buy a violin]. ("Sue went to Torino so that she could buy a violin.") 1e. Bill has to reach Philadelphia before noon. ("Bill must reach Philadelphia before noon.")1f. Will is to leave tomorrow. ("Will is scheduled/supposed to leave tomorrow.") The interpretation of (1a-f) involves modality; however, there is no lexical item that seems to be the source of the modality. What (1a-f) have in common is that they involve infinitivals. This book addresses the following questions about covert modality: what is the source of this modality, what are its semantic properties, why are some but not all infinitival relatives modal, and why are all infinitival questions modal? The infinitival [+wh] Complementizer is identified as the source of the covert modality. The apparent variability of the force of this modality is related to the particular semantics of this Complementizer. Infinitival relatives that receive a non-modal interpretation are analyzed as being reduced relatives and thus not involving the infinitival [+wh] Complementizer.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements iv1 Introduction 11.1 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Dissertation Outline and Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2.1 Chapter 2: The Syntax of Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2.2 Chapter 3: Non-Modal Infinitival Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2.3 Chapter 4: The Distribution and Interpretation of Infinitival Questions 61.2.4 Chapter 5: Ability Modals and their Actuality Entailments . . . . . . 82 The syntax of Infinitival Relatives 92.1 Subject infinitival relatives as Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.2 Non-subject Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.3 The Modality of Infinitival Relatives and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.3.1 Proposal for Object Infinitival Relatives and Infinitival Questions . . 152.3.2 Proposal for Subject Infinitival Relatives and Infinitival Questions . . 162.4 Structures for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.4.1 Kayne (1994)’s proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172.4.1.1 Kayne (1994)’s general proposal for Relative Clauses . . . . 172.4.1.2 Kayne (1994)’s proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . 182.5 Arguments for a Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212.5.1 The Candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212.5.2 The Argument from ‘Idioms’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22x2.5.2.1 A related argument from Subcategorization . . . . . . . . . 232.5.3 The argument from Binding Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.5.4 Amount Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.5.5 Scope Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.5.6 Lower Readings of Adjectival Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.6 My proposal for Reduced Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.6.1 Version 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.6.2 On the nature of Direct Predication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.6.3 Version 2: Accommodating Reconstruction into Reduced and FiniteRelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322.6.3.1 A comparison with Sauerland (1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.6.4 Reduced Relatives and Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.6.5 Interpreting the New Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392.7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Non-Modal Subject Infinitival Relatives 423.1 Properties of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423.1.1 Non-Modal Infinitival Relatives allow for Modal Readings too . . . . 463.2 A Raising Relative Clause analysis of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . 473.2.1 Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473.2.2 Interpreting the Raising Analysis (for Reduced Relatives) . . . . . . . 493.2.3 Raising Analysis applied to Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . 503.3 Motivations for the Movement of Superlative est/Ordinals/only . . . . . . . 513.3.1 A semantics for Superlatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543.3.2 Ordinals and Nominal only: Focus Sensitivity and Analysis . . . . . 563.4 More on the Raising Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593.4.1 Structural Characterization of Superlatives, Ordinals, and only . . . . 593.4.2 Licensing from inside the infinitival clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.5 A prediction: Loss of Association with Focus with Non-modal InfinitivalRelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633.5.1 Loss of Focus-sensitivity of Superlatives, only, ordinals . . . . . . . . 64xi3.5.2 A Further Prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673.6 Lower Readings: Further evidence for the Raising Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 693.6.1 Evidence for Reconstruction from NPI licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . 713.6.2 Evidence for Reconstruction from the behavior of Numeral Modifiers 723.6.3 Low Readings and Negative Island Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733.6.4 Parentheticals: a potential alternative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743.7 Interpretation of the non-modal infinitival clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753.7.1 A first semantics for first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753.7.1.1 first with possessive NPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763.7.1.2 Digression: Larson & Cho (1998)’s Analysis of former . . . . 773.7.1.3 Back from the Digression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773.7.2 first with Non-modal Infinitival Relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793.7.3 Simultaneity between ‘head’ NP and Relative Clause . . . . . . . . . 803.7.3.1 Simultaneity effects with Finite Relative Clauses and first . 823.7.3.2 On why there is Reconstruction with first . . . . . . . . . . . 843.7.4 A Prediction: Locus of Change of State is Undetermined . . . . . . . 873.7.5 Temporal Properties of the Infinitival Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883.7.5.1 When is first(P) evaluated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893.7.5.2 Aspectual Characterization of the Infinitival Clause . . . . 913.7.5.3 A covert Perfect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923.7.5.4 A problem with assuming a Covert Perfect and a solution . 933.7.5.5 A Difference between the Covert and the Overt Perfect . . 963.7.5.6 Perfective Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973.7.5.7 A Minimal Crosslinguistic Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.7.6 Future interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003.8 Appendix A: A semantics for Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses . . . . . 1023.9 Appendix B: Semantics of only and first . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.9.1 only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.9.2 Ordinals (‘first’, ‘second’, : : :, ‘last’) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093.10 Appendix C: An in situ licensor analysis of Non-modal Infinitival Relatives 1103.11 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112xii4 The Distribution and Interpretation of Wh-infinitivals 1144.1 Infinitival Question Complements: Distribution and Subcategorization . . . 1154.1.1 The Distribution of Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154.1.1.1 A Classification of Predicates that take Finite InterrogativeComplements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154.1.1.2 Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1164.1.2 Infinitival Questions and Subcategorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204.1.2.1 Non-interrogative Infinitival Complements of Predicates thattake Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1204.1.2.2 Some Subcategorizational Generalizations . . . . . . . . . . 1214.1.2.3 One Predicate or Many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1244.2 Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274.2.1 Nature of Infinitival Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274.2.2 Force of Infinitival Modality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324.2.2.1 The effect of the wh-word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334.2.2.2 The effect of the embedding predicate . . . . . . . . . . . . 1344.2.2.3 The effect of the infinitival question predicate . . . . . . . . 1354.2.2.4 The effect of the context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1354.3 The Modality in Infinitival Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364.3.1 Could Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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De Gruyter Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken vis-à-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectification which are either too narrow or too general by addressing two questions: (i) what is the relation between (inter-)subjectivity and pragmatics, and (ii) on what grounds can subjective and intersubjective meanings be distinguished? In the descriptive sections of the volume, these theoretical considerations are confronted with extensive analytical, and often also quantitative, study of empirical data mainly from English but also from Romance languages. The focus in these case studies is on the analytical and diachronic relations between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, with particular emphasis on the question how linguistic syntagms may shift towards the expression of meanings of which the hearer is an essential part. The domains covered include adverbials and modals, but also the noun phrase, to date a relatively under-researched area in grammaticalization studies. Together these three areas ensure broad verification of existing hypotheses about the relative order in which subjectification and intersubjectification take place. This volume is mainly of interest to researchers and graduate students with a special interest in subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization, and with a general interest in language change. The volume will also be welcomed by functional linguists (in a broad sense), since it is the first to bring eclectic functionalists' reflections to bear so explicitly on grammaticalization.
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De Gruyter Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.
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De Gruyter Topics in Oceanic Morphosyntax
Book SynopsisThis monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages. For the first time, aspects of the morphology and syntax of Oceanic languages such as the encoding of sentence types, the structure of the noun phrase, noun incorporation, constituent order, and ergative vs. accusative alignment are discussed from a comparative point of view, thus drawing attention to genetic, areal and language-specific features. The individual papers are based on the field work of the authors on lesser-described and endangered languages and are basically descriptive studies. At the same time they also explore the theoretical implications of the data presented and analyzed, as well as the historical development of certain morpho-syntactic phenomena, without basing these explorations on a single theoretical framework. The book provides new insights into the morphosyntactic structures of Oceanic languages and is of interest primarily for linguists working on Austronesian, in particular Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian languages, but also for typologists and linguists working on language change.Trade Review"This volume is of interest to any linguist working on Oceanic languages, general typology, and various aspects of sentential and nominal morphosyntax. It is a significant contribution to the field, mainly because of the rich original data, innovative methodologies and useful comparative overviews the different articles provide."Kilu von Prince in: Linguist List 23.2290
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De Gruyter Contrasting English and German Grammar: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak)
Book SynopsisAsheninka Perene belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.
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De Gruyter Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A
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Book SynopsisBridging theoretical modelling and advanced empirical techniques is a central aim of current linguistic research. The progress in empirical methods contributes to the precise estimation of the properties of linguistic data and promises new ways for justifying theoretical models and testing their implications. The contributions to the present collective volume take up this challenge and focus on the relevance of empirical results achieved through up-to-date methodology for the theoretical analysis and modelling of argument structure. They tackle issues of argument structure from different perspectives addressing questions related to diverse verb types (unaccusatives, unergatives, (di)transitives, psych verbs), morpho-syntactic operations (prefixation, simple vs. particle verbs), case distinctions (dative vs. accusative, case vs. prepositions), argument and voice alternations (dative vs. benefactive alternation, active vs. passive), word order alternations and the impact of animacy, agentivity, and eventivity on argument structure. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, and corpus linguists interested in the syntax of argument structure and its modelling using precise empirical methods.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
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De Gruyter The MIHI EST construction: An instance of
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?
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De Gruyter Tri-Constituent Compounds: A Usage-Based Account
Book SynopsisThis book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.
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De Gruyter Associated Motion
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
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De Gruyter Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax
Book SynopsisThe monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description.Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction:The Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion.I. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects.II. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the “passive” construction in Chinese.III. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative (“headless”) clause.IV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF …, THEN …), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms.V. Word order: linearization of dependency structures.The monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Coastal Marind
Book SynopsisThis grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the other languages of the poorly known Anim family, Coastal Marind features astonishingly complex verb morphology and a range of unusual phenomena, including indexing of up to four arguments on the verb, verbal marking of focus (the 'Orientation' system), engagement prefixes tracking the attention of the addressee, and a system of four genders realised by intricate agreement patterns. The structure of the language is examined in a detailed but accessible way, and its many complexities are brought to life by contextualised spontaneous data, drawn from a rich audio-visual corpus.
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De Gruyter Perspectives on Element Theory
Book SynopsisElement Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume provides an overview and extension of this program, exploring new lines of research within phonology and at its interface (phonetics and syntax). The present collection reflects on issues concerning the definition of privative primes, their interactions, organization, and the operations that constrain phonological and syntactic representations. The contributions reassess theoretical questions, which have been implicitly taken for granted, regarding privativity and its corollaries. On the empirical side, it explores the possibilities ET offers to analyze specific languages and phonological phenomena.
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De Gruyter Clausal Complementation in South Slavic
Book SynopsisThis volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Gurindji: As spoken by Violet
Book Synopsis Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Gurindji is a Pama-Nyungan language of north-central Australia. It is a member of the Ngumpin subgroup which forms a part of the Ngumpin-Yapa group. The phonology is typically Pama-Nyungan; the phoneme inventory contains five places of articulation for stops which have corresponding nasals. It also has three laterals, two rhotics and three vowels. There are no fricatives and, among the stops, voicing is not phonemically distinctive. One striking morpho-phonological process is a nasal cluster dissimilation (NCD) rule. Gurindji is morphologically agglutinative and suffixing, exhibiting a mix of dependent-marking and head-marking. Nominals pattern according to an ergative system and bound pronouns show an accusative pattern. Gurindji marks a further 10 cases. Free and bound pronouns distinguish person (1st inclusive and exclusive, 2nd and 3rd) and three numbers (minimal, unit augmented and augmented). The Gurindji verb complex consists of an inflecting verb and coverb. Inflecting verbs belong to a closed class of 34 verbs which are grammatically obligatory. Coverbs form an open class, numbering in the hundreds and carrying the semantic weight of the complex verb
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De Gruyter The Syntax of Argument Structure: Empirical Advancements and Theoretical Relevance
Book SynopsisBridging theoretical modelling and advanced empirical techniques is a central aim of current linguistic research. The progress in empirical methods contributes to the precise estimation of the properties of linguistic data and promises new ways for justifying theoretical models and testing their implications. The contributions to the present collective volume take up this challenge and focus on the relevance of empirical results achieved through up-to-date methodology for the theoretical analysis and modelling of argument structure. They tackle issues of argument structure from different perspectives addressing questions related to diverse verb types (unaccusatives, unergatives, (di)transitives, psych verbs), morpho-syntactic operations (prefixation, simple vs. particle verbs), case distinctions (dative vs. accusative, case vs. prepositions), argument and voice alternations (dative vs. benefactive alternation, active vs. passive), word order alternations and the impact of animacy, agentivity, and eventivity on argument structure. The volume will be of interest to theoretical linguists, psycholinguists, and corpus linguists interested in the syntax of argument structure and its modelling using precise empirical methods.
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De Gruyter L'oeuvre de Lucien Tesnière
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De Gruyter A Sketch Grammar of Kopar: A Language of New Guinea
Book SynopsisKopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was necessarily short, this book provides as comprehensive a description as possible of the grammatical structure of this complex and fascinating language. It is quite thorough and detailed and goes well beyond what is normally considered a sketch grammar. It covers all the phenomena essential to description and comparison and gives clear, typologically sound definitions and explanations. The grammar is written with the research interests of language typologists and comparative grammarians foremost in mind. Typologically, Kopar can be described as a split ergative, polysynthetic language. The language lacks nominal case marking so ergativity or lack thereof is signaled by verbal agreement affixes. Tenses and moods which describe as yet unrealized events, like future and imperative, pattern accusatively for agreement affixes, while those express realized events, like past and present, pattern ergatively. In addition, the ergative case schema is overlaid by a direct-inverse inflectional schema determined by a person hierarchy, a feature Kopar shares with other languages in its Lower Sepik family. As a polysynthetic language, incorporation of sentential elements like temporals, locationals, adverbials and verbals is extensive, though noun incorporation is not. Sadly, this work is all the documentation we will likely ever have of Kopar, a language of potentially very high theoretical interest, given its rare typological profile. It will certainly be of interest to language typologists and comparative grammarians, and anyone who wants to explore the range of language variation
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De Gruyter Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions
Book SynopsisHow can insights from Construction Grammar (CxG) be applied to foreign language learning (FLL) and foreign language teaching (FLT)? This volume explores several aspects of Pedagogical Construction Grammar, with a specific look at issues relevant to second language acquisition, FLL, and FLT. The contributions in this volume discuss a wide range of constructions, as well as different resources, methodologies, and data used to learn constructions in the language classroom. More specifically, they seek to provide answers to the following questions: What do new constructional approaches to teaching and learning foreign language look like that take the insights of CxG seriously? What should electronic resources using constructions and semantic frames for foreign language instruction look like? How should constructions (pairings of form with meaning/function) in the foreign language classroom be introduced? What role does frequency play in learning constructions in the language classroom? What types of strategies does CxG offer to facilitate the acquisition of a second language? This volume is relevant for anyone interested in second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, Construction Grammar, and Cognitive Linguistics. Endorsements: If first language learning flows forth from language use, teaching language should be based on relevant usage-patterns, modified in accordance with the advanced cognitive and linguistic knowledge of older learners. The current volume shows how insights from first and second language learning and usage-based Construction Grammar can be turned into evidence-based teaching strategies.Heike Behrens, University of Basel Usage-based Construction Grammar has changed our view of language learning, but it is only recently that researchers have begun to apply the insights of the constructionist approach to language pedagogy. This volume brings together a collection of articles in which experts of Construction Grammar and Usage-based Linguistics make concrete proposals for teaching constructions by using corpora and other resources. A must read for everybody interested in grammar teaching.Holger Diessel, University of Jena With Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar, Boas has produced an impressive and much-needed volume which excels at illustrating the immense potential of constructionist approaches to improve language pedagogy. The contributions to this volume, all authored by leading cognitive and corpus linguists, convincingly describe what a successful future of language teaching could look like—one that is founded in usage-based linguistics and takes language patterns seriously. I consider this volume essential reading for any applied linguist.Ute Römer, Georgia State University
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay
Book SynopsisThis book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore and less than 1,000 speakers in Malacca, Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written on contact languages are rare, and much rarer is a reference grammar written about a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language. The reference grammar, which aims to be useful to linguists and general readers interested in Baba Malay, describes the language’s sociohistorical background, its circumstances of endangerment, and provides information regarding the phonology, parts of speech, and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken in Singapore. A chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in Malacca is also included. The grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic, and not altogether simple, providing structural information for those who are interested in the typology of contact languages.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion. The grammar provides detailed information on the phoneme inventory, morphology, syntax and select semantic fields. Remarkable features include a 90 phoneme inventory including unique sounds, a morphology with thousands of non-compositional portmanteau elements, complex rules for negation, and extensive ergative syntax. Unusual patterns are also found in the organization of semantic fields, for example in partonymies of the body, taxonomies of the natural world, verbal semantics and kinship terms. The combination of linguistic ‘rara’ suggest that linguistic evolution under low contact can yield baroque and unusual patterns. The volume should be of special interest to linguists, typologists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and researchers in Oceania and Melanesia. Endorsement: "This long-awaited grammar is a major contribution to Papuan and general linguistics, providing as it does by far the most comprehensive and accurate grammatical description of a language that has already assumed a position as one of the world's most complicated. Hitherto, the most extensive grammatical description of the language has been the survey-like Henderson (1995), and while Levinson explicitly acknowledges his debt to this earlier grammar and to unpublished work by Henderson, his own detailed grammar clearly takes the level of description and analysis of the language to a completely new level. In particular, Levinson's grammar makes clear precisely to what extent and in what ways the language's morphology is complex beyond even what most studies on morphologically complex languages envisage. In addition, it provides a much more detailed account of the language's syntax, based on a judicious combination of corpus attestation and careful elicitation (incl. using the kits developed by Levinson's group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics). The grammar thus not only fills a major lacuna in our knowledge of the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea area, but also provides grist for future studies on the implications of the language's complexities."Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Kritik und Kontext Die Illusion der Freiheit
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tredition The Verb in Biblical Hebrew
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tredition Fachsprachprüfung Zahnmedizin
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J.B. Metzler How to Do Things with Corpora
Book SynopsisThe Beldeko corpus as a Resource to Investigate Cohesion in German Learner Language: a Preliminary Analysis of Corpus Homogeneity.- Make it a Double: The Building and Use of the LSFB and FRAPé Corpora to Compare French Belgian Sign Language and Belgian French.- Data retrieval and sampling.- On the internal and external productivity of IAW phrases in German.- The Finnish Existential Partitive construction analyzed: comparing two applications of collostructional analysis.- Fragments as Constructions: a Corpus-Driven Proposal.- A Corpus-Based Perspective on 'Split Stimuli' in German.- Manner and reportative evidential adverbials an annotation study on German nach-PPs.- Dime con quién te juntas y te diré quién eres - from Construction Grammar: A case study of a snowclone in Spanish.- Latvian Deverbal Nouns in ien- and -um- and Derivational Productivity: a Corpus-Based Analysis.- Syntactic Complexity across Registers in Russian.- Investigating Modality through Lexical Modals: a Corpus Study of the Brexit Political Discourse.- Case-Marking Alternation with Psychological Verbs in Spanish: Combining Different Corpus Data Sources.- Grammar bores the crap out of me!: a Mixed-Method Study on the X the Y out of Z Construction and Its Usage by ESL and ENL Speakers.- Overt head marking and choice of genitive construction in Modern Hebrew: Empirical data and theoretical questions.- Reflexive Pronouns and Locative PPs in English: Evidence from 3 Corpora and Speaker Judgement.
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BoD - Books on Demand Bernhard Jülg 18251886 und seine bahnbrechende Grammatik der Kalmükischen Sprache 1847
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Brill Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary
Book SynopsisDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary, published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.Trade Review"...a major contribution to the lexicography of Spoken Arabic..." - Heikki Palva, in: Studia Orientalia
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Brill The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages
Book SynopsisIn The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension that exists between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative constructions in both languages. On the basis of usage data from a wide variety of registers, from the 16th century to the present day, Alan K. Scott demonstrates that codification has preserved obsolescent morphological genitive constructions in Dutch and German while suppressing their potential replacements, and shows that, despite its association with norm-conformant language, the genitive is used to a surprisingly large extent in informal early modern Dutch and modern German sources.
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Brill A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Great Andamanese, a moribund language spoken on the Andamanese Islands belonging to India in the Bay of Bengal. This important documentation covers all major areas of the grammar of Great Andamanese and gives us a first detailed look at this unique language, which is on the verge of extinction. Of particular interest here is the discussion of the body division class markers which play an important role throughout much of the grammar and which are documented in this volume for the first time. The volume will be of interest for general linguists from the fields of linguistic typology and areal linguistics as well as those interested in South Asian languages in general.Trade Review"[T]his grammatical description of PGA is a heroic record of the language in its last hours and by far the most detailed description of a Great Andamanese language to date. It was well-worth publishing and will be of scientific value for all time to come." Harald Hammarström, Journal of South Asian Languages and Lingusitics, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2014).
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Brill Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī: Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr vānī Poems from Rājasthān
Book SynopsisWith Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī scholars and students of medieval Hindī literature acquire an essential tool for learning one of its important but difficult dialects, the so called sadhukkarī bhāshā. Based on an early Rājasthānī manuscript, the volume includes a commented edition of one hundred poems attributed to medieval mystic and thinker Kabīr, followed by a detailed treatment of morphological structure and main syntactic features of the language. The exposition is accompanied by numerous textual examples and index of all lexical and grammatical morphs. The book can be used as a descriptive grammar of the dialect in question, an aid to the study of historical development of New Indo-Aryan languages, and a reader for use in university courses.Trade Review"The work represents a perfect tool for study, and nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of the language of the Rajasthani Kabīr tradition as transmitted in 1615 CE." - Monika Horstmann, Heidelberg, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 112 (2017)
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Brill Negation in Arawak Languages
Book SynopsisNegation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinã, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeño Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in orientation, each descriptive chapter in the volume is based on fieldwork by authors in the communities in which the languages are spoken. Chapters describe standard negation, prohibitives, existential negation, negative indefinites, and free negation, as well as language-specific negation phenomena such as morphological privatives, the interaction of negation with verbal inflectional categories, and negation in clause-linking constructions. Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists.
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Brill Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference
Book SynopsisCrosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference contains 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores NP-structure and the impact of information structure, countability and number marking on interpretation, using data from Russian, Armenian, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Karitiana, Turkish, English, Catalan and Danish. Part Two examines language specific definiteness marking strategies in spoken and signed languages—differentiated definiteness marking in Germanic, double definiteness in Greek, adnominal demonstratives in Japanese, ‘weak’ definiteness in Martiniké and the special referring options made avilable by signing. Part Three examines the second-language acquisition of genericity in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language acquisition. Contributors include: Željko Bošković, Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Edit Doron, Nomi Erteschik Shir, Brigitte Garcia, Elaine Grolla, Tania Ionin, Loïc Jean-Louis, Makoto Kaneko, Marika Lekakou, Silvina Montrul, Ana Müller, Asya Pereltsvaig, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Helade Santos, Serkan Şener, Rebekka Studler, Kriszta Szendröi, Anne Zribi-Hertz.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Biographies Introduction Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Anne Zribi-Hertz part 1: Noun Phrase Syntax and Interpretation: In Search of Crosslinguistic Regularities Information Structure and (In)definiteness Nomi Erteschik-Shir On Number and Numberlessness in Languages with and without Articles Asya Pereltsvaig The Cognitive Basis of the Mass-Count Distinction: Evidence from Bare Nouns Edit Doron and Ana Müller The Turkish NP Željko Bošković and Serkan Şener part 2: Definiteness and Definiteness Markers across Languages The Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Definite Determiners in Swiss German Rebekka Studler Reduced Definite Articles with Restrictive Relative Clauses Patricia Cabredo Hofherr When Determiners Abound: Implications for the Encoding of Definiteness Marika Lekakou and Kriszta Szendrői The Semantics and Syntax of Japanese Adnominal Demonstratives Makoto Kaneko From Noun to Name: On Definiteness Marking in Modern Martinikè Anne Zribi-Hertz and Loïc Jean-Louis Reference Resolution in French Sign Language: The Effects of the Visuo-Gestual Modality Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre part 3: Noun Phrase Interpretation and Second-Language Acquisition When Articles Have Different Meanings: Acquiring the Expression of Genericity in English and Brazilian Portuguese Tania Ionin, Elaine Grolla, Silvina Montrul and Hélade Santos Index
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Brill Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change
Book SynopsisA basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a “strong” way, most of the chapters – especially those based on corpus data – show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.
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Brill A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
Book SynopsisA Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paradigms We Live By Irene E. Zwiep I. INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS OF HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Theories and Practices of Linguistic Analysis Geoffrey Khan, The medieval Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar José Martínez Delgado, Morphology versus meaning: biblical mixed roots and Andalusian Hebrew lexicographical theories Ronny Vollandt, Whether to capture form or meaning: a typology of early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch translations Irene E. Zwiep, The impact of teytsh on diqduq, or: why the metaphor became a noun in early modern Ashkenazi linguistics b. Development of Hebrew Terminology Judith Kogel, Towards a ‘mapping’ of the Hebrew grammatical terminology of the Middle Ages: a history of transmission Ilana Wartenberg, The birth of the medieval Hebrew mathematical language as manifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab Epistle of the Number II. THE LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL HEBREW LINGUISTICS a. Jewish Modes of Preservation and Transmission Mauro Perani, Fragments of linguistic works from the Italian Geniza Stefan C. Reif, Another glance at a gifted grammarian: more on Shabbethai Sofer of Przemysl b. Crossing Faiths, Crossing Disciplines Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, “With that, you can grasp all the Hebrew language”: Hebrew sources of an anonymous Hebrew-Latin grammar from thirteenth-century England Saverio Campanini, The quest for the holiest alphabet in the Renaissance
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Brill A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara: Aymara as spoken in Southern Peru
Book SynopsisIn A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara, Matt Coler provides a detailed description of a highly-endangered variety of Aymara spoken in the remote Andean village of Muylaque (Muylaq’i), in Southern Peru. This heretofore undescribed variety has many unique characteristics that shed light on the impressive extent of variation in Aymara. Using natural language data gathered during several field trips to Muylaque, Coler offers a detailed analysis of the phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax of Aymara. Additionally, A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara includes complete interlinear glosses for several personal narratives. A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara represents an important contribution not only to the study of Aymara, Aymara variation, and Andean languages, but also to research into linguistic typology and language contact.
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Brill Construcciones posesivas en español
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationships between possession, existence and location. After revising the conceptualization of possession in Latin, the analysis is extended to Spanish. From this perspective, certain possession constructions in Spanish are examined. First of all, it is argued that all datives are related to possession in dative constructions; secondly, the characterizing features of the transitive, intransitive and reflexive variants are determined in constructions with psychological verbs; and, finally, the existence of comitative possession in Spanish is proved by the analysis of comitative constructions.Table of ContentsÍndice Presentación 9 I. Relaciones posesivas 13 1. Introducción 13 2. Posesión y localización 14 3. Subdominios de posesión 18 4. Esquemas de posesión 24 5. Habilidad del punto de referencia 31 6. Posesión locativa: del indoeuropeo al latín 33 7. Esquema posesivo latino 42 7.1. Verbos de afección y posesión 43 7.2. Esquemas de imagen de contenedor y de transferencia 46 II. Dativos posesivos 59 1. Introducción 59 2. Dativo y complemento indirecto: forma y función 63 3. La interpretación semántica de los complementos indirectos 67 3.1. Experimentadores y localización 66 3.2. Transferencia y localización 68 4. Dativo simpatético 71 5. Tipos de dativos posesivos 77 5.1. Verbos de pertenencia 77 5.1.1. Pertenencia metafórica 78 5.2. Verbos posesivos 88 5.3. Verbos de adecuación 91 5.4. Verbos copulativos y pseudocopulativos 93 5.5. Verbos con fusión argumental de desplazamiento y figura 95 5.6. Verbos de igualdad o similitud 96 5.7. Verbos de cambio de estado 97 5.7.1. Dativo ético 102 6. Dativos posesivo-locativos 107 6.1. Verbos de afección psíquica 107 6.2. Acusativo partitivo 109 6.3. Construcciones partitivas direccionales 112 6.4. Verbos de manera de posición indicando contacto 114 6.5. Verbos de remoción 115 6.6. Verbos de objeto construido 116 6.7. Verbos locatum 119 6.8. Verbos en derredor 121 6.9. Verbos direccionales 122 6.10. Verbos estativos 126 7. Tipos de dativos 129 8. Conclusiones 132 III. Verbos de afección psíquica 137 1. Introducción 137 2. Sujetos caprichosos 141 3. Alternancias y valores aspectuales 147 3.1. Grado de agentividad del sujeto 150 3.2. El contenido aspectual de la predicación 157 4. Fusión e incorporación 167 5. Causativos denominales 170 6. Causativos deadjetivales 177 7. Causativos latinos 184 7.1. Verbos deadjetivales/denominales 184 7.2. Verbos con significado causativo 186 7.3. Verbos con etimología confusa 189 8. Construcciones biactanciales con verbos de afección física 190 8.1. Verbos físicos con sujeto no agentivo 190 8.2. Verbos de afección física de causa interna 191 8.3. Verbos de modificación de estado 193 8.4. Verbos con fusión de desplazamiento y figura 196 8.5. Verbos con sujeto partitivo y causa externa 197 8.6. Verbos de desarrollo temporal 199 8.7. Verbos transitivos de cambio de estado físico 200 9. Conclusiones 206 IV. Construcciones posesivas de compañía 213 1. Introducción 213 2. Construcciones posesivas comitativas en portugués 215 3. Construcciones posesivas comitativas en las lenguas románicas 217 4. Construcciones atributivas y esquemas de compañía 220 5. Posesión comitativa en español 225 5.1. Estar con 226 5.2. Quedar con 236 5.3. Estar sin y quedar sin 244 5.4. Verbos pseudocopulativos 247 5.4.1. Verbos locales estativos y de desplazamiento 247 5.4.2. Mantener y conservar 253 5.4.3. Verbos con valor temporal 255 6. Conclusiones 268 V. Conclusiones 273 Referencias bibliográficas 285
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Brill A Grammar of Kurtöp
Book SynopsisA grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The chapters introduce the language and the people who speak in a historical context and then go on to detail the synchronic and diachronic phonology, discuss word classes and cause structure, morphosyntax and syntax, and illustrate rich system of evidentiality and related categories. The book will be of interest to Tibeto-Burmanists, historical linguists and those interested in the prehistory of the eastern Himalayas, and to typologists.Trade Review[...], this book will prove indispensible for anyone interested in reconstructing the common ancestors of Tibetan and East Bodish languages and as such is undoubtedly a welcome addition to the expanding field of Tibeto-Burman Linguistics - Joanna Bialek, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Brill A Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena: Passives and Causatives in Marathi
Book SynopsisA Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena offers a comprehensive account of the formal and semantic aspects of the two most prominent voice phenomena in Marathi: the passive and the causative. Previous studies offer many partial insights into various aspects of Marathi’s passives and causatives. However, a comprehensive description of the formal, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of Marathi’s passives and causatives as not been available so far. Attempting to fill this gap, the present monograph offers a description in the functional-typological framework. At the same time it introduces the reader to the rich tradition of grammatical studies in Marathi, which up to now have remained inaccessible to those who are unfamiliar with the language.
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Brill The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages
Book SynopsisThis book presents unique insights into laryngeal features, one of the most intriguing topics of contemporary phonetics and phonology. It investigates in detail properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms (as in ejectives or implosives), stress, and prosody. What makes American indigenous languages special is that many of these properties co-exist in the phonologies of languages spoken on the continent. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, the contributions span a range of American languages, illustrating how the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features provides insight into how potential articulatory and aero-acoustic conflicts are resolved, which contrastive laryngeal features can co-occur in a given language, which features pattern together in phonological processes and how they evolve over time. This contribution provides the most recent research on laryngeal features with an array of studies to expand and enrich the fascinating field of phonetics and phonology of the languages of the Americas.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, and Leo Wetzels 2. Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change Keren Rice 3. Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan Siri G. Tuttle 4. Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality Sharon Hargus 5. Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas Matthew Gordon 6. Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross Linguistics Study of Laryngeal Contrast Heriberto Avelino 7. The Role of Prominent Prosodic Position in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages José Elías-Ulloa 8. Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya Melissa Frazier 9. Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems Larry M. Hyman 10. The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan Thiago Costa Chacon 11. The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano Wilson Silva 12. Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana Didier Demolin and and Luciana Storto Index
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Brill Approaches to Complex Predicates
Book SynopsisComplex predicates can be loosely defined as a sequence of items that behave as a single predicate, projecting a single argument structure within a clause. Each of the members of the predicate contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head. The present volume presents a collection of theoretical linguistic results on the study of complex predicates in different perspectives and with a variety of approaches.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Approaches to Complex Predicates Léa Nash and Pollet Samvelian 2 From Adpositions to Events: The Case of Location Verbs in Basque Ane Berro 3 Univerbation of Light Verb Compounds and the Obligatory Coding Principle Denis Creissels 4 Variation and Grammaticalisation in Bantu Complex Verbal Constructions: The Dynamics of Information Growth in Swahili, Rangi and SiSwati Hannah Gibson and Lutz Marten 5 Tuning in to the Verb-Particle Construction in English Adele E. Goldberg 6 Noun-Verb Complex Predicates in Hindi and the Rise of Non-Canonical Subjects Annie Montaut 7 Malayalam Ceyy-Support and Its Relation to Event and Argument Structure Pooja Paul 8 Complex Predicates as Complementation Structures Peter Svenonius 9 Complex Predicate Formation via Voice Incorporation Susanne Wurmbrand Index
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Brill Tense and Text in Classical Arabic: A Discourse-oriented Study of the Classical Arabic Tense System
Book SynopsisIn Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a new discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. Critical of commonly held assumptions regarding the binary structure of the tense system and the perfect-imperfect asymmetry, the author redefines the discussion by analysing the extended syntactic and textual environments in which the paradigm of the indicative forms is used.The study shows that the function of Classical Arabic tenses is determined by the interaction of their inherent grammatical meaning and the overall dialogic, narrative, or generic contexts in which they occur. It also demonstrates the particularizing effect of context, so that temporal and aspectual meanings are always more nuanced, delicate, and pragmatically motivated in actual discourse.
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Brill Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse
Book SynopsisIn Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive and innovative account of how Mandarin Chinese, as a language without extensive morphological marking, highlights (or foregrounds) major events of a narrative and demotes (or backgrounds) other supporting descriptions. Qualitative and quantitative methods in the analysis and examinations of authentic written text provide extensive evidence to demonstrate that various types of morpho-syntactic devices are used in a wide range of structural units in Chinese to mark the distinction between foregrounding and backgrounding. The analysis paves the way for future studies to systematically approach grounding-related issues. The typological viewpoint adopted in the chapters serves well readers from both the Chinese tradition and other languages in discourse analysis.Trade Review"Taken as a whole, the book is notable in three aspects. First of all, it has considerable significance for typological studies on the grounding phenomenon. [...] Second, as the first study to apply grounding theory in the study of Chinese discourse grammar, this work is both theoretically and methodologically rewarding for Chinese grammar study. [...] Third, the book is user-friendly because it is very well organized." ~ Yurong Zhao, Northeastern University of China, in Chinese Language and Discourse, Vol. 9/2 (2018), pp. 251–255Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Tables List of Figures Symbols and Glossing Conventions 1 Introduction 1.1 Theoretical Framework 1.2 Methodology 1.3 Organization of the Book 2 Grounding: A Literature Review 2.1 The Notion of Grounding 2.2 Grounding in Linguistics 2.3 Semantic Characteristics of Grounding 2.4 Grammatical Indications of Grounding 2.5 Narrative Discourse and Grounding 2.6 Chapter Summary 3 Grammatical Features of Chinese and Previous Grounding Analysis 3.1 The Important Notion of Topic 3.2 Units in Written Discourse 3.3 Constituent Order 3.4 Indication of Temporal Location 3.5 -Le and Le 3.6 Previous Grounding Analysis of Chinese 3.7 Chapter Summary 4 At the Verb Phrase Core: Foregrounding Through Bounding 4.1 Aspect in Chinese 4.2 Grammatical Aspect Markers and Grounding 4.3 Situation Aspect and Grounding 4.4 Bounded Events and Narrative Advancement 4.5 Chapter Summary 5 In Single-Verb Clauses: Constituent Order and Grounding 5.1 Clause Types Under Examination 5.2 Analysis of Constituent Order and Clause Types 5.3 Statistical Verification 5.4 Discussion 5.5 Chapter Summary 6 In Complex Predicates: Grounding of Verb Phrases 6.1 Serial Verb Constructions 6.2 Multiple Aspectually Marked Verb Phrases 6.3 Discussion 6.4 Chapter Summary 7 In Complex Sentences: Margins Versus Nucleus 7.1 Literature Review: Margins and Subordination 7.2 Adverbial Margins in Chinese 7.3 Discussion: Sentence-Initial Margins With Zero Subject 7.4 Chapter Summary 8 Related Issues 8.1 Coercion in Semantic and Aspectual Reinterpretation 8.2 Interpretations of Postverbal Zai-PPs 8.3 Foregrounding Function of jiu 8.4 Clause Integration and Backgrounding 8.5 Chapter Summary 9 Concluding Remarks 9.1 Major Findings 9.2 Contributions of the Study 9.3 Remaining Issues References Sources of Data and Examples
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